The supply contract is Yingli America is its largest to date. Fluor Corp is leading EPC for the Centinela project in Imperial Valley, a region of Southern California that has become a hotspot for renewable energy development …
The Solana utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) project, capable of storing solar-generated electricity and delivering it in the evenings and at night in order to help meet peak demand, is 80% complete. A workforce of more than 2,000 is on site installing Solana’s 32,000 parabolic trough solar energy collectors, one of a range of benefits the project has brought to the Pheonix area …
Busy week behind us. Here’s a bunch of cleantech and climate news from around the interwebs: Clean Energy (In General) Germany Drastically Reduces Forecast For Grid Expansion: “On Monday, the German Network Agency slashed the number of urgently needed power lines needed for the energy transition from 74 to … [continued]
We mentioned a horrid piece of solar power reporting from the LA Times this week. BrightSource Energy has a full response to that piece, reposted below (h/t NewEnergyNews): Solar Projects Benefit Counties As other reporters and bloggers have pointed out, Sunday’s Los Angeles Times ran a one-sided and misinformed article questioning the economic … [continued]
Smart City San Diego and the mayor of San Diego unveiled their completed solar-powered electric vehicle charging project this week. It is called the “Solar-to-EV” project, and it directly charges electric vehicles in the San Diego Zoo. Using ten solar canopies, this system generates 90 kW (90,000 watts) of electricity, and … [continued]
Mobile technology and cleantech seem to go hand in hand very well. Recently, we have seen apps devoted to electric vehicle chargers, smart grids, bike sharing, carbon emissions, and solar power. Now you can add another solar mobile app to the list. Ingeteam has come out with a mobile app … [continued]
Someone recently passed along these great graphs from a German website (you can see an English translation of the webpage they came from here). The overall message: solar PV prices in Germany have dropped considerably in the past few years (as installation has boomed), and the prices are pretty darn low these days …
The discovery of a revolutionarily different way to generate electricity from sunlight has been made by researchers at MIT. The new technology, which is essentially a solar energy funnel, is able to use a much broader spectrum of sunlight’s energy than conventional solar does, by utilizing materials under elastic … [continued]
Just one day after announcing it will release its long-anticipated Initial Public Offering (IPO) by the holiday season, SolarCity provided details on the share price. The solar installation industry leader is aiming to trade 10 million shares for between $13-15 a share. Stockholders will sell 65,012 shares of initial stock. SolarCity originally had … [continued]
Here’s some more top solar energy news from around the interwebs: China Solar Thermal Targeted For 3,000 MW By 2015: “China is likely to have about 3,000 MW of solar thermal power capacity by 2015…. The total market value for that projected solar thermal capacity is 45 billion yuan (or $7.15 billion).” Is Puerto Rico … [continued]
